{"title":"A Comparative Prediction Study of Housing Price Index based on Web Search Data - Evidence from Beijing and Lanzhou in China","authors":"Bohui Wang, Xin Yang, Biancheng Wang, Benfu Lv","doi":"10.5220/0004526003280335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0004526003280335","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, using web search data to predict public health trends and economical indicators, like consumption, unemployment, tourism is arising more and more researchers interest. Based on the thought that web search data could reflect searchers' attention and concern, we study the correlation between housing price index and web search data, then make a comparative analysis of two regions with different economic levels. One the one hand, a theoretical framework illustrating the relationship between web search data and housing price index has been established. One the other hand, empirical studies of Beijing and Lanzhou has been conducted to verify the predict ability of web search data. Comparing with models not including web search data, the mean absolute percentage error decreased and the goodness-of-fit improved in models with web search data. In addition, based on the comparison of Beijing and Lanzhou, we find the predict ability of web search data has a certain relationship with economic development level of the region, and web search data has a better explanation ability for the fluctuation of housing price in developed region, like Beijing. Importantly, using web data to predict is able to achieve true real-time monitoring, and provide as references for government sector to make macro-control policy.","PeriodicalId":194465,"journal":{"name":"DCNET/ICE-B/OPTICS","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117194990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From e-Supply Chain Capability Generation to Information Technology Value Co-creation - A Perspective of e-Business Process","authors":"Jing Zhao, Yi Jiang","doi":"10.5220/0004531601530159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0004531601530159","url":null,"abstract":"The firms have engaged in initiatives that link e-supply chain processes (e.g., e-procurement) across enterprises to create Information Technology (IT) value. However, it is not clear how IT is contributing to value creation across-organization process. The objective of this paper is to investigate the process from e-supply chain capability generation to IT value creation through e-business process across-organization. A model of e-supply chain value is developed to investigate what and how e-supply chain capabilities are realized by usage of inter-firm IT resources integration and how business value of IT is co-created in multifirm environments. The paper tests the model using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with data collected from 196 manufacturers in China. Our results provide theoretical support for a dynamic process that distinctive e-supply chain capabilities embedded in e-business process lead to process performance first and then financial performance and network performance. We find that e-supply chain capabilities (ESCC) realize e-supply chain value for all partners (e.g. supplier and customer) via upstream and downstream ebusiness process.","PeriodicalId":194465,"journal":{"name":"DCNET/ICE-B/OPTICS","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133791024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Trust in Online Discussion Forums and How they Influence Patients' Intention to Adopt Medical Tourism Services","authors":"P. Ractham, Charlie C. Chen, M. Nakayama","doi":"10.5220/0004504602980305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0004504602980305","url":null,"abstract":"Demand for medical tourism services originates from lack of health care options locally, increasingly healthcare cost, and improvements in healthcare quality in other countries. Many potential users are anxious about the quality of doctor and facility, as well as other issues (e.g. language barriers, confusion about procedure, and legality). As a result, many potential medical tourists rely on the use of online discussion forums in the decision-making process by seeking useful information and interacting with members who experienced or have the same needs for care abroad. A survey is conducted to collect data from 223 discussion threads in top 3 online discussion forums ranked by 80 participants. Data analysis results show that trust in the use of online discussion forums can help foster trust in hospital and doctor, it has no direct influence on their intention to adopt medical tourism services. Improving trust in doctoral and hospital cannot necessarily help increase the intention of users to adopt these services. Future research may want to seek other important factors such as social influence to help increase the intention of users in adopting medical tourism services.","PeriodicalId":194465,"journal":{"name":"DCNET/ICE-B/OPTICS","volume":"158 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121284854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Concept of Building Regional Business Spatial Community","authors":"D. Jelonek, C. Stepniak, Tomasz Turek","doi":"10.5220/0004531700830090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0004531700830090","url":null,"abstract":"Cloud computing is one of the most dynamically developing technologies applied on the Internet. It can be used not only for the purpose of resource management in the network, but also as the platform for network community creation. The paper concerns on one kind of cloud computing utilization. It shows the proposal of regional business spatial community (RBSC) which conjoins local government institutions, enterprise media providers and different kinds of organizations which deal with regional development planning. The notion of the concept is based on the application of commercially accessible software in the cloud which makes possible the accumulation of information resources provided by partners and its usage for the purpose of a given region development, as and by every participant of the venture. As a technological base of RBSC are proposed GIS in cloud solutions by the ESRI firm in the form of the ArcGIS in Cloud software. In the article were presented generalities of spatial community creation beginning from the conceptive phase, across the planning, until implementation. Potential advantages resulting from the accession to RBSC is the increase of the management efficiency in the organizational, social, economic and technological areas.","PeriodicalId":194465,"journal":{"name":"DCNET/ICE-B/OPTICS","volume":"173 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116003234","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Qsense - Learning Semantic Web Concepts by Querying DBpedia","authors":"Andrei Panu, S. Buraga, L. Alboaie","doi":"10.5220/0004610603510356","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0004610603510356","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes Qsense — an educational and research Web application, developed to ease the interrogation of DBpedia for users intending to learn the most important concepts regarding the Semantic Web, especially to increase the knowledge about DBpedia in a pragmatic way. Additionally, by providing a compelling Web interface, Qsense offers the possibility to explore the DBpedia's ontology structure and to practice various SPARQL queries by expert and especially nonexpert users.","PeriodicalId":194465,"journal":{"name":"DCNET/ICE-B/OPTICS","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114683805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tiago Picão, Fiona McMahon, Valerie Purchase, M. Mulvenna
{"title":"Strategic use of Twitter in Local Government - A Northern Ireland Study","authors":"Tiago Picão, Fiona McMahon, Valerie Purchase, M. Mulvenna","doi":"10.5220/0004499002490255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0004499002490255","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the results of a survey of Twitter usage in Northern Ireland's twenty-six councils. The data was gathered in Summer 2012. The research questions were developed from a review of the literature on use of social media by government and focused on the role of social media as a communication channel to local government, examining the dialogue between government and citizen and the sentiment of such dialogue. The results show significant heterogeneity in Twitter use amongst the councils; with many not engaging at all, while a small number were highly engaged with their citizens. Regardless of the perspectives of the councils, there was evidence that there was a demand from the citizens for conversations that was not being met by the councils. The paper recommends that councils need to define a social media strategy in order to maximise the use of social media, but reflects that the councils should find it easy to engage with citizens by simply asking them via Twitter.","PeriodicalId":194465,"journal":{"name":"DCNET/ICE-B/OPTICS","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115502901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applying Bayesian Parameter Estimation to A/B Tests in e-Business Applications - Examining the Impact of Green Marketing Signals in Sponsored Search Advertising","authors":"Tobias Blask","doi":"10.5220/0004523603120319","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0004523603120319","url":null,"abstract":"We develop and perform a non reactive A/B-test setting that enables us to evaluate the influence of green marketing signals on the customer's decision to take a specific online-shop into account in the process of buying a specific product by clicking on an ad on a search engine results page (SERP). We analyze campaign performance data generated by a European e-commerce retailer, apply a Bayesian parameter estimation to compare specific advertisements and discuss the implications of the results.","PeriodicalId":194465,"journal":{"name":"DCNET/ICE-B/OPTICS","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127326530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electronic Human Resource Management Strategies for Atypical Employment","authors":"Volker Stein, Tobias M. Scholz","doi":"10.5220/0004497201290136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0004497201290136","url":null,"abstract":"As part of corporate Human Resource Management, the configuration of the workforce becomes more and more challenging since an increase of non-permanent, temporary, timely restricted labour can be observed, the so-called ‘atypical employment’. At the same time, advancements in electronic HRM are promising a better handling of operative, but also of strategic HRM tasks. It is the objective of this paper to propose a conceptual design for the formulation of a strategy integrating e-HRM and atypical employment. Which advanced objectives can be reached by such an integrated strategy? Which tasks have to be covered in regard to this intersection? And which are the requirements for strategy formulation in respect to that integrated strategy? By this paper, we would like to strengthen the theory-practice-nexus by applying IT-related progress to a real-world phenomenon being relevant for contemporary workforce management on the strategic level.","PeriodicalId":194465,"journal":{"name":"DCNET/ICE-B/OPTICS","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127823274","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Which Clicks Lead to Conversions? - Modeling User-journeys Across Multiple Types of Online Advertising","authors":"Florian Nottorf","doi":"10.5220/0004504901410152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0004504901410152","url":null,"abstract":"With an increase in the potential to allocate financial online advertising spending, managers are facing a sophisticated decision and allocation process. We developed a binary logit model with a Bayesian mixture approach to address consumers' buying decision processes and to account for the effects of multiple online advertising channels. By analyzing data from a medium-sized online mail order business, we found inherent differences in the effects of consumer clicks on purchasing probabilities across multiple advertising channels. We developed an alternative approach to account for the different attribution of success of advertising channels — the average success probability (ASP). Compared to standardized metrics, we found paid search advertising to be overestimated and retargeting display advertising to be underestimated. We further found that the mixture approach is useful for considering heterogeneity in the individual propensity of consumers to purchase; for the majority of consumers (more than 90%), repeated clicks on advertisements decrease their probability of purchasing. In contrast with this segment, we found a smaller segment of consumers (nearly 10%) whose clicks on advertisements increase conversion probabilities. Our approaches will help managers to better understand consumer online search and buying behavior over time and to allocate financial spending more efficiently across multiple types of online advertising.","PeriodicalId":194465,"journal":{"name":"DCNET/ICE-B/OPTICS","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128056010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Jelonek, C. Stepniak, Tomasz Turek, Leszek Ziora
{"title":"The Influence of Virtualization of Resources Acquisition Processes on the Enterprises Competitiveness","authors":"D. Jelonek, C. Stepniak, Tomasz Turek, Leszek Ziora","doi":"10.5220/0004524503200327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0004524503200327","url":null,"abstract":"Throughout the past few years, changes in the processes of enterprise's resources acquisition have been reflected by the news opportunities provided by web-based technology, changes in the behaviours and expectations of business partners and customers as well. The aim of the paper is to demonstrate that virtualization of resources acquisition processes has essential effect on the achievement of competitive advantage by enterprises in the market. Importance of the resources in the enterprise has been justified based on the resource-based theory. Selected typologies of the resources in the enterprise were presented with the directions of changes in the process of resources acquisition. A model of the process of resources acquisition was also proposed. The study also emphasizes the opportunities for virtualization of different types of resources acquisition processes in enterprises. The study aim was achieved using the results obtained in a survey carried out in a big enterprise from the food processing sector.","PeriodicalId":194465,"journal":{"name":"DCNET/ICE-B/OPTICS","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132709612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}